Sentences with phrase «why past studies»

Research in animals suggests that NSAIDs might be more helpful fighting certain types of breast cancer than others — which could explain why past studies in women with breast cancer have had mixed results.

And it could explain why past studies measured higher than expected levels of ozone - damaging chemicals in the stratosphere, Rex says.

This finding helps to explain why past studies have found conflicting results — experience matters, and tough times can influence an entire generation's happiness for the rest of their lives.

Not exact matches

The drug is called Acthar, and for the past year it has been the focus of a study by the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine and Oregon State that has been trying to understand why doctors keep prescribing it for ailments it has never been proved to treat effectively.

This is why we must always be willing to revisit something we studied in the past... and always remain humble with our conclusions.

I was hopeful that today's moms were experiencing more equal marriages when it comes to sharing chores and childcare; I was hopeful we'd moved past the disturbing study Parents magazine reported in 2011, Mad at Dad, with the subhead, «We love our husbands — so why are we so angry at them, so often.»

«We asked this population directly why they had thoughts of suicide and death, and what we found contradicted past study findings — the vast majority of participants said factors other than depression including illness, disability, pain, financial concerns, family problems and bereavement are driving these thoughts,» said Dr. Kennedy.

«Past research has found a link between violent crimes and performance on tests, but researchers haven't been able to say why crime affects academic performance,» explains Jennifer A. Heissel, a PhD graduate in human development and sociology at Northwestern University, who led the study.

Why go underwater to study the ancient past, when research is so much easier on land?

These same studies have also begun to explain how and why the brain allocates each memory to a particular group of cells and how it links them together and organizes them — the physical means by which the scent of a madeleine, the legendary confection that sparked Marcel Proust's memory stream, leads to remembrance of things past.

The team is also interested in studying why the taboos, which Jones says have helped save the lemur in decades past, are breaking down.

«Why study the past?

For the past 50 years ecologists have devoted close study to movements of exotic species, in an effort to better understand why they go where they do and the impact they have when they arrive.

It doesn't take a neuroscientist to know that avoiding temptations from a drug - addled past is a good idea, so why go to all the trouble of studying alcoholic mice?

As part of the study, Tripati and her colleagues also investigated what sets the past and present height of glaciers in the tropics, and why they have been retreating.

Studies in the past asserted that fat was dangerous for our health and one of the primary reasons why people often developed numerous illnesses.

I've got to give them credit... the article was VERY well researched and put together beautifully to summarize where the studies in the past have gone wrong, and why recent studies are showing that everyone may have been wrong for the last 5 or 6 decades about saturated fat.

While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.

That's why Lexia devoted its first two clinical studies — one in the summer of 2002 and one this past summer — to those who struggle hardest.

The Vanquish Is Quite Simply Special On All Counts, With This Model Being The Last Hand Built Car To Come Out Of The Famous Newport Pagnell Factory And If We Study The Sculptured Exterior Body, Along With The Beautifully Hand Crafted Interior, It Is Not Hard To Understand Why These Models Have Only Become More Desirable On A Worldwide Scale, With Enthusiastic Collectors Now Wanting To Acquire One Of The Best Left To Purchase, With Exceptional Past Aston Martin Service History And Super Low Miles?

This is why for the past 30 years, J.D. Power has published its Initial Quality Study that examines the number of problems experienced by vehicle owners within the first 90 days.

I can see why business schools and the military study the past to avoid mistakes in the future and I think we can all do the same — but what we ought not to do is assume that we can know for sure what will happen.

Why Investors May Need To Lower Their Sights This McKinsey & Company study outlines reasons why annual investment returns for the next 20 years may be far lower — as much as four percentage points a year less in the case of U.S. stocks — than they have been the past 30 yeaWhy Investors May Need To Lower Their Sights This McKinsey & Company study outlines reasons why annual investment returns for the next 20 years may be far lower — as much as four percentage points a year less in the case of U.S. stocks — than they have been the past 30 yeawhy annual investment returns for the next 20 years may be far lower — as much as four percentage points a year less in the case of U.S. stocks — than they have been the past 30 years.

These facts help explain why, in spite of the Earth's air temperature increasing to a level that the IPCC claims is unprecedented in the the past millennium or more, a recent study by Randall et al. (2013) found that the 14 % extra carbon dioxide fertilization caused by human emissions between 1982 and 2010 caused an average worldwide increase in vegetation foliage by 11 % after adjusting the data for precipitation effects.

He can't know what he is talking about, or being disingenuous, there are countless studies showing the MWP was global and warmer than present and the Holocene Maximum even warmer than the following highs such as the Roman Warm and MWP, that's why it was called the maximum, and the extent of past tree lines show this clearly.

Studies like this combined with the rather robust ARGO data from the past decade indicate quite nicely why there likely was a tropospheric pause, and the fact that overall the planet continues to accumulate energy.

No clouds would result in drastically greater offset than +32 K, all cloudy would result in a drastically lower offset than +32 K. Study clouds, how and why they form, and you will be well on the way to understanding any of this recent climate change, and indeed climate change of past millenia.

If you don't know these things (and I confess a few scientists who quasi study this issue and generally support the consensus position that we are affecting the climate and our past and present actions present significat risk of major future shifts don't fully) then you don't really know this issue — because it goes to what Climate Change actually is, and why it presents the range of future shift that it does.

A new NASA / British Antarctic Survey study examines why Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change over the past two decades.

The second goal of this study is to address two simple questions; «Why is warming over the past 30 — 50 years greater in West Antarctica than in East Antarctica?»

Reporter Travis Hoium analyzes a new study from NREL, which sheds some light on why the industry's largest solar installers have been losing market share over the past year.

The study showed that the current warming is unprecedented for 11500 years, but it really did not because of it's proxies» low resolution, but it did not have to because we know that the spikes did not exist (as there is no mechanism for that) in the past and the current warming, the spike, though a product of dubious procedures and «not robust» in the study (but this does not matter because we know from instrumental records that there's a spike), is unprecedented, because we know it is (and we know why and we already know that it's gonna continue)... So what exactly did this «excellent study» add to the knowledge when all that it was supposed to add, it did not but we already know all of this without the study.

Why do environmental studies remain mired in the past?

Why does Emanuel's new study diverge from past research?

This means that our forecasts tell us more about ourselves and our times than they do about emergent folks or phenomena, which is why it's fun, as a study in history, to see what the past has said... [more]

This means that our forecasts tell us more about ourselves and our times than they do about emergent folks or phenomena, which is why it's fun, as a study in history, to see what the past has said about its future.

Northwestern University's Steven J. Harper drew a parallel to another study published on the HBR blog: Why Law Firm Pedigree May be a Thing of the Past.

Even more than in 2005, there are strong reasons why I believe Baby Boomer peridementia is also very likely to blossom within the legal profession in the coming decade or two, as BoomerEsq decides to work well past the traditional retirement age (a trend already noted in studies such as «The Changing face of the legal profession,» which is discussed below):

For the past 2 decades, Dr. Harriet Lerner has studied the art of the apology and recently just published her latest book called Why Won't You Apologize?

Over the past 30 years many research studies continue to prove the effectiveness and power of EFT and how and why it is so transformative to relationships.